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From the Bestsell i ng Author ofThink and Grow Rich!WithPeace of Mind

A PLUME BOOKGROW RICH! WITH PEACE OF MINDNAPOLEON HILL was born into poverty in 1883, andachieved great success as an attorney and journalist. Hewas an advisor to Andrew Carnegie and Franklin Roosevelt. With Carnegie's help, he formulated a philosophyof success, drawing on the thoughts and experiences of amultitude of rags-to-riches tycoons. In recent years, theNapoleon Hill Foundation has published his bestsellingwritings worldwide, giving him an immense influencearound the globe. Among his famous titles are Think andGrow Rich Action Pack, Napoleon Hill's A Year of Growing Rich, and Napoleon Hill's Keys to Success.

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PrefaceNapoleon Hill as a youth was no different from mostyoung people today. He associated success with money inhis early career. He wanted to be important, with a displayof opulence. People today tend to associate the popularbook Think and Grow Rich in terms of money-but Hill'sperspective was to change as he matured.Hill remarked in one of his papers that during his earlycareer when he was receiving large sums of money, he believed it essential that he drive nothing less than a RollsRoyce. He purchased a large estate in New York; he hadservants and a variety of other employees to tend to hiswants. This extravagant spending prior to the Great Depression of 1929 led to Hill losing his possessions and, lateron, his estate.When Grow Rich! with Peace of Mind was published in1967, Hill was eighty-four years old. His message hadchanged. He was older, much wiser, and he wanted to portray the importance of peace of mind.Hill in Grow Rich! with Peace of Mind states he is tryingto help the reader avoid the mistakes he made. As youread the book, perhaps you can learn from Hill's life thatmany other things besides money and material items areneeded in order to truly have peace of mind. You will readof learning from your past, developing a positive mentalattitude, living life free of fear, and the importance of sharing your wealth with others.Napoleon Hill had a very interesting life of research, interviews, and writings as to what constitute success. Thisfinal book combines all of his knowledge on living a lifewith peace of mind.-Don M. GreenExecutive DirectorNapoleon Hill Foundation

ForewordI began to plan this book in the closing years of the nineteenth century. It has thus been nearly seventy years in preparation. During those years I have witnessed more vitalchanges in the affairs of men than had taken place in all theprevious years of the history of civilization. I have seen theadvent of the automobile, the airplane, radio, television,atomic power, the age of space. I have seen electric powerspread across the country, industry rise to levels of productionbeyond nineteenth-century dreams, science and technologyenjoy an almost explosive development.I have seen old nations disappear, new nations arise, junglesgive way to paved roads, cities burgeon where sleepy villagesonce stood. And I have seen people adapt themselves to allthese changes and go right on being people, just as they havebeen for uncounted thousands of years.You will find this book takes cognizance of the changingworld. In speaking of people, however, I speak of the forceswhich always have moved people and always will. We still seethat without sufficient money our lives are mean and hemmedin, so we want success in earning money. And along withmoney-success we want to be free of fears, nervous tensions,self-induced illness, worries, unhappiness. That is, in additionto money-success we seek peace of mind to make our livescomplete. While this book may help you win great wealth, itcan help you win peace of mind in abounding measure.As you will see, when we speak of peace of mind we speakof more than peace as a restful state. Peace of mind is at thesame time restful and dynamic, or, we might say, a restful baseupon which your life-dynamism stands. It has been called the

Forewordviiwealth without which you cannot really be wealthy. It manifests itself in many ways:It is freedom from negative forces which may take possession of the mind, and from any such negative attitudes asworry and inferiority.It is freedom from any feeling of want.It is freedom from self-induced mental and physical ailments of the kind which chronically degrade life.It is freedom from all fears, especially the seven basic fearswe shall expose in all their ugliness.It is freedom from the common human weakness of seekingsomething for nothing.It is possession of the joy of work and accomplishment.It is the habit of being one's self and doing one's ownthinking.It is the habit of checking one's attitudes toward life andtoward one's fellow men, and always adjusting these attitudes for the better.It is the habit of helping others to help themselves!It is freedom from anxiety over what may happen to youafter you die.It is the habit of going the extra mile in all human relationships.It is the habit of thinking in terms of what you wish to do,instead of thinking of the obstacles which may get in your way.It is the habit of laughing at the petty misfortunes whichmay overtake you.It is the habit of giving before trying to get.Peace of mind covers a surprisingly broad field, doesn't it?In every way you use it, it helps you win money-success-andmore. Peace of mind helps you live your life on your ownterms, in values of your own choosing, so that every day yourlife grows richer and greater.This volume is written by a man who has found peace ofmind the hard way, by trial and error. Its purpose is tohelp others find their own peace of mind, along with moneysuccess, by a shorter and less costly route. If some of the

VIl!Forewordepisodes seem ultra-personal, please remember that it is theseemingly small events of a man's life which make up thegreater portion of his experiences.In my own personal experiences you may see your own.Notice how small experiences conceal both success andfailure. They are the first testing ground in which you are giventhe opportunity to prove that you are the master of your fate,you are the captain of your soul.I realize that nobody wishes to take medicine prescribed bya doctor who does not take it himself when seeking the benefitshe proclaims. The "medicine" given herein is the "medicine"proved by its marvelous effect upon myself and thousands ofothers.Thanks to circumstances I have had the aid of more than fivehundred of the most successful men in America. These menallowed me to go behind the curtains of their private lives andsee for myself both their good qualities and their weaknesses;their successes and their failures; how they enjoyed or did notenjoy using their money; how this factor related itself to theirpossession or nonpossession of peace of mind.It was with the Science of Personal Achievement, built onmy interviews and research, that I have helped thousands ofmen and women whip poverty, wipe out the effects of a negatively conditioned childhood, solve problems, rise above circumstances which held them back.Let me say I did this many years after I myself had risen abovea heritage of five evils-you may know some or all of themPovertyIgnoranceFearIlliteracyHopelessnessAs a youngster I was often hungry. There was a time when Iate bark I scraped off birch trees. Until I reached my teens Icontinued to be hungry.I am still hungry! Not for physical food, but for mental food;food for a searching mind which still seeks to know moreabout why some men succeed and some fail, some haveinward peace and some have inward conflict. But I have leftmy childhood handicaps far behind.

ForewordixThere came a time when one of the world's richest men,Andrew Carnegie, backed me in a plan to find the secrets ofmoney-success and life-success. I have been an adviser to threeUnited States Presidents, William Howard Taft, WoodrowWilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and I helped the first President of the Philippines to attain freedom for his people.There was a period in which I courted fame. I craved for it,prayed for it and worked endlessly to achieve it. At long lastmy mail came from all over the world, sackfuls, more than Iever could read, let alone answer. Promoters looking for myco-operation came by the score, merchants offered me allkinds of credit and many offered to buy my endorsement oftheir wares.My tastes now are different. It was when I found that if Iwanted any sleep I could not have a telephone registered in myname that I began to appreciate peace of mind.Yet while I courted fame I never stopped writing. Book followed book in my effort to tell the world what I had learnedabout success, about the value of a positive state of mind,about human relations. Here is a list of the books I havewritten-The Law of Success (8 volumes); Think and GrowRich; How to Sell Your Way Through Life; The Master-Key toRiches; How to Raise Your Own Salary; Mental Dynamite (16volumes); Science of Personal Achievement; and a seventeenlesson course now being taught in home study and local classgroups in the U.S. and many other countries.The passing years have helped me judge the value of thesebooks and gauge their effect upon their readers. They havehelped hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, to build livesof happiness and success. I have been interested, all this while,in finding out which of the many items of advice have turnedout to be most useful and of most universal application. I havechecked carefully to see which anecdotes and types of anecdotes have provided the upward turning point at which a manfinds himself and goes.This book represents, in part, a careful choice of itemswhich have stood the test of time. In reading these items youwill know that they in particular have something which takes

xForewordhold in the mind and builds the power of the mind to will thebest and find it.Also you will find much that is new. The world changesnot in principle, but in certain aspects which bring differentkinds of opportunities to the seeking man. More moneymaking opportunities have arisen in the United States duringthe past two decades than existed in all of our previous history,and still they swarm thick and fast. You will acquire a vastvision for these opportunities as you read this book.You will find, if you have read my previous works, that thisone has a new and different objective, emphasizing valueswhich money alone cannot buy. All of my books show inmany ways that there is more to life than making money. Thisbook proves the point far more fully than I was able to prove ityears ago-and shows, too, that peace of mind in itself is amighty force in helping you make money.I have said this book has been nearly seventy years in theplanning. Quite true, but until recently I did not know it. Ibelieve we all are guided by invisible sources of inspiration;and recently there came to me inspiration from a strange andvery real source, revealing how much of my life has been spentin preparing to write these pages, urging me to uncover mytypewriter and get to work.The man who speaks to you is in his eighties. His liferemains full and hearty. His possessions-of which he surelyhas enough-have not taken away the thrill of accomplishment. The book is the first step of accomplishment; the best ofthe accomplishment comes in knowing that this book willbring wealth and happiness to those who read and think.I am ready now to write more clearly and maturely thanever was possible to me before. Join me and we will go on a.fascinating journey together . a journey toward richesaa journey toward the fulfillment of your dearest dreamsjourney toward a Supreme Secret which gives you mastery oflife itself.-Napoleon Hill1967